The 83rd Saturday Reunion
October 27, 2012
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Join the TCRWP community as we open our doors to thousands of K-8 educators from around the world for more than 140 free workshops, keynotes and closings on state-of-the art methods in the teaching of reading, writing, performance assessments and the Common Core. The entire TCRWP staff will present on this day, including Lucy Calkins. Topics will include: argument writing, embedding historical fiction in nonfiction text sets, opinion writing for very young writers, managing workshop instruction, aligning instruction to the CCSS, using performance assessments and curriculum maps to ratchet up the level of teaching, phonics, guided reading, critical literacy, using video to teach comprehension, and more.
Major Speakers include:
Tony Wagner is the author of the critically important book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It. His other titles include: Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools, Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools, and the recently released Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World.
Jack Gantos, the 2012 Newbery Medal winner for his novel, Dead End in Norvelt, has written picture books, middle school fiction and novels for young adults. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key was a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control was a Newbery Honor book.
Carl Anderson is the author of many books on writing, including How's it Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers. His latest project is the series, Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations That Move Young Writers Forward.
Lucy Calkins is Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and the Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College. She is the author or co-author of more than 30 books, including the upcoming Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade: A Yearlong Workshop Curriculum (Heinemann, 2013). She is also co-author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5, and of Pathways to the Common Core.
Mary Ehrenworth, Deputy Director for Middle Schools at the Project, is co-author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5, of The Power of Grammar, and of the recently released Pathways to the Common Core. Mary also does major keynotes across the world.
Amanda Hartman, leader of the Project's K-2 work, is co-author of Authors as Mentors, The Conferring Handbook and of One-to-One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers. She has co-authored two books in the upcoming Units of Study for Teaching Writing.
Chris Lehman is author of A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, 5-8 and of the new book, Energize Research Reading and Writing (Heinemann).
Laurie Pessah, Senior Deputy Director of the Project, is co-author of Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports and of A Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing. Laurie organizes all of the TCRWP's work with schools and has special responsibilities for leading the organization's work with principals and assistant principals.
Shanna Schwartz is author of Making Your Teaching Stick as well as a contributing author for Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade, a series due to be released in early 2013 (Heinemann). She supports other staff developers in primary literacy.
Kathleen Tolan, Senior Deputy Director of the Project, is co-author of five books in The Units of Study for Teaching Reading Series, as well as of Literary Essays in the forthcoming series, Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade (Heinemann, 2013). Kathleen leads the Project's work with reading and all of the organization's summer Institutes.
The Morning Keynote will be held at Riverside Church at 9:00 a.m.
490 Riverside Drive (between 120th and 122nd Streets)
The ensuing workshops will be held at Teachers College, 525 W.120th Street, NY 10027
No registration required. For more information, visit our website at: www.readingandwritingproject.com
